Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 2: yo, so, sho, shi, and shu-ya, the sky-water, sentence 13
Sign (8.), which Tegumai scratches, is carp-tail plus round egg = yo.
Who acts: Tegumai, Sign · What happens: scratch, be · To what, where: Sign, carp tail
This is a sentence of the lesson «Just So Stories, How the Alphabet Was Made, part 2: yo, so, sho, shi, and shu-ya, the sky-water» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tegumai, Sign), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tail | nsubj |
| 2 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sign | punct |
| 3 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Sign | nummod |
| 4 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sign | punct |
| 5 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sign | punct |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sign | punct |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 scratches | obj |
| 8 | Tegumai | Tegumai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 scratches | nsubj |
| 9 | scratches | scratch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Sign | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 tail | punct |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 tail | cop |
| 12 | carp | carp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tail | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 carp | punct |
| 14 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | plus | plus | CCONJ | _ | 17 egg | cc |
| 16 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 egg | amod |
| 17 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tail | conj |
| 18 | = | = | SYM | _ | 19 yo | punct |
| 19 | yo | yo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 egg | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Sign | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scratch | present | Tegumai | Sign | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | Sign | carp tail plus round egg and yo | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:books:088-justso-alphabet-2-shu-ya-sky-water.lesson:13.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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